The Betsy (1978)

Directed by:
Daniel Petrie

Written by:
William Bast
Walter Bernstein
Harold Robbins

Plot:
The patriarch of a family-owned corporation hires a young race car driver to help him design a fuel efficient car in secrecy. They face resistance from the president of the company (the patriarch's grandson), who wishes to eliminate the motor car division because of bad blood between himself and his grandfather. During flashbacks, a parallel set of problems is revealed in the family's past, problems that persist into the present, and the race car driver gets deeper into the web of deception and corporate intrigue.

Genres: Drama
Countries: United States
Languages: English
Runtime: 125

Tags:

Cast:

Robert Duvall... Loren Hardeman III

Tommy Lee Jones... Angelo Perino

Edward Herrmann... Dan Weyman

Jane Alexander... Alicia Hardeman

Laurence Olivier... Loren Hardeman

Richard Venture... Mark Sampson

Read Morgan... Donald

Katharine Ross... Sally Hardeman

Carol Williard... Roxanne

Clifford David... Joe Warren

Titos Vandis... Angelo Luigi Perino

Kathleen Beller... Betsy